Karen Oberhauser, professor emeritus in entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told “Wisconsin Today” this data on insecticides is “exciting” because it measures the impact humans have on monarchs and other species.
“A lot of people come up to me and say, they’re just not seeing as many monarch butterflies as they have in the past,” she said. “(This study) is really our ability to dig into the data and think about the changing practices in agriculture.”
“Very often these tools can invent false facts,” said UW-Madison Assistant Professor Annette Zimmermann. “That’s very misleading and very dangerous, particularly in professions that impact a lot of people.”
Zimmermann researches the ethical implications of AI at UW. She says it’s crucial to give workers a seat at the table when making decisions about how to use AI.
Gregory Nemet, professor of public affairs at UW-Madison, and Morgan Edwards, associate professor of climate policy at the school, are two of the lead authors on the 222-page report. Titled “The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal,” it is the second in a series of annual reports and shows how steep the battle against climate change is.
In 1895, UW–Madison professor Edward Birge set out to answer a question he had about zooplankton in Lake Mendota after reading a French scientific paper, and his research marked the beginning of limnology in North America. Since then, UW–Madison scientists have arguably made Madison’s lakes the most-studied lakes in the world.
“The Milwaukee Tuition Promise” will impact incoming students during the Fall 2025 school year. The program ensures that eligible students can meet the full cost of tuition for up to four years.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Wednesday five student organizations have been temporarily suspended after posting antisemitic language on social media accounts.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee temporarily suspended five pro-Palestinian student groups for a social media message the local Jewish community called intimidating and threatening.
Among public universities, UW-Madison covers tuition for students whose families earn $65,000 or less. The program launched in 2018 and is funded through a mix of private money and institutional resources, not taxpayer money.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone thought he’d be exhaling.
But the day after reaching a deal with student protesters, the campus crisis that consumed Mone in early May wasn’t over. In fact, it was intensifying.
The Ripon Commitment, which was unveiled Wednesday, is a two-part financial aid program for students who are Wisconsin residents.
The vacuum provides cool air to help the chocolate set as creamy layers are added to create the sweet treat, said Rich Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hartel runs the university’s Candy School — also known as the Confectionery Technology Course — which started in 1963 and has become so popular that it has a waitlist of people who want to attend.
Howard Schweber, who for years taught political science and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told WPR that Wisconsin once had a reputation for having “mostly apolitical courts, but that fell apart in the 2000s.” He said he believes the politicization of state Supreme Court elections started in 2007 with the election of conservative Chief Justice Annette Ziegler.
“It really took the Democrats Wisconsin a long while to realize that these were not your father’s judicial elections anymore, and they have indeed become highly politicized,” Schweber said. “Because, just as with the Supreme Court, people realize that if you can capture the court, you can promote your ideology in a very effective way.”
But, she cautions, more research is needed to show whether these early results hold up. “We just don’t have enough information on the full lifespan of autistic people. Understandably, I think, that creates a lot of distress among autistic people and their loved ones,” says Bishop, an associate professor of social work at University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Badgers open up their season with an exhibition game vs UW-Stevens Point on Oct 29. The Pointers were 15-10 in the 2023-24 season. UW opens the regular season with two home games at the Kohl Center. First the Badgers will welcome Wright State on Nov 5 before going head-to-head with Georgetown on Nov 10.
There was no given sign Joe Pavelski should retire. The Plover native and former University of Wisconsin standout had just finished his 17th season in the NHL, capped by a second straight Western Conference finals appearance with the Dallas Stars.
An expanded Big Ten Conference led the conference to visit a new city for its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, and University of Wisconsin basketball teams hope to visit as part of a new format.
AJ Blazek and Casey Rabach were conference rivals during their playing days. Now the two are, as Blazek phrased it, tag team partners for the University of Wisconsin football team tasked with revitalizing an offensive line.
When opposing politicians discuss immigration and crime, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Michael T. Light said they often “talk past one another.”
“With global temperatures increasing, that raises the potential ‘baseline’ for the average temperatures,” said David Mikolajczyk, a research meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a result, “strong warming events such as this one can occur more frequently and have a bigger impact.”
In 1996, Congress added language to include the distribution of child pornography over the internet, not just the mail. This section is important to pay attention to, said Howard Schweber, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Let us assume, in the moment that Donald Trump wins reelection … a Trump Justice Department could choose to enforce the law and make it an actual crime to post on the internet any information about abortion,” Schweber said.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed the suit against NIH in 2021 on behalf of Madeline Krasno and Ryan Hartkopf, social media users whose comments had been removed from NIH posts. Krasno told The Washington Post in May that she witnessed animal abuse in a monkey research lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She later began posting online about her experiences, only to find that both Wisconsin and NIH were removing her comments.
